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Zustand: Fair. 1837. No Edition Remarks. 186 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Pencil inscriptions to front pastedown and free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Pages remain intact. Boards have moderate edg…

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Zustand: Very Good. 2 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 22 x 15 cms. Category: British Association for the Advancement of Science; Cosmo Books : 29 years…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 2nd. 190 page hardcover before publishers ad section. The Second Edition, including additional thoughts on the study of mathematics. Ex-lib copy, but with minimal markings. N0 exterior markings, no bookplate, no pockets - just a small library name stamp on title page. Blue period cloth exteri…

Cloth. Zustand: Good. A new edition of William Whewell's architectural study dedicated to German churches. A new edition with additional notes written during an architectural tour in Picardy and Normandy.Written by William Whewell, English polymath, priest and historian of science and architecture. The present book is one of his…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. First American Edition. The Bridgewater Treatises, Treatise III; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 284 pages; HC 1st American edition. Soundly bound in original beige cloth with paper title label to spine. Treatise III (of 8) in the Bridgewater series of works addressing conflicts bewtween science and Christian…

A three volume history of science from ancient times up to 1837. An amazing achievement by Whewell and landmark in the history of science. Whewell knew Faraday and Herschel as working scientists, but knew nothing of Charles Darwin. The first volume contains the index to all three volumes, making pages referring to say, Galileo,…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good-. No Dust Jacket. 284 pp. Original brown cloth covers, lightly soiled and rubbed w/ discoloration to edges. Paper title label on spine chipped at edges. Spine sunned. Light wear to extremities. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Lacks front and rear blank endpapers. 4 pp. of ads at front. Light fox…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 21.5 cm x 14 cm xv + 381 pages some spotting to first and last few pages.Contents tight no inscriptions, bound in later circa 1900 half green calf cloth sides.Spine in 6 compartments with ornate gilt tooling 2 contrasting labels, binding clean and tight no splits or stains. Bridgewater…

First edition. 3 volumes. Rebound in-house by KTB in dark green J.Hewit acid free calf backed green and new acid free marbled boards with gilt leather spine labels and acid free endpapers. Demy 8vo. pp. xxxvi, 437, [2] errata and printer; xi, 534, [2] Errata and printer; xii, 624. Very Good. Victorian period standard and slant,…

Disbound, 19pp., inc. title, some faint foxing, good condition. Note on the background: But Flamsteed was furious when Sir Isaac Newton, who regularly used his data for his own studies, grew tired of Flamsteed's insistence on double-checking every detail before allowing his data to be published and rushed out an error-strewn ver…

8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [v]-xv, 381, [1]. lacking half-title. contemporary half calf (rubbed, library stamp on title). Second Edition. One of a series of eight works on the power, wisdom and goodness of God as manifested in the creation, known as the 'Bridgewater Treatises'. They were written at the request of the trustees of Francis H…

First edition. Three volumes. 8vo. Twentieth century tan quarter sheep over russet cloth boards, gilt ruled compartments to the spines, gilt lettered direct to two panels and dated at the feet, blind tooled device to the others. Very good. Whewell was a prolific writer and something of a scientific polymath, concerning himself w…